Information & Communications Technology

Seasoned technologists, digital innovators, and other ICT experts, dedicated to advancing the field of information and communications technology

Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Enterprise Architect and Microsoft MVP specialising in Azure and Infrastructure as Code for regulated industries.
With deep expertise in Azure architecture, platform engineering and cloud-native technologies, I deliver solutions that strengthen compliance, unlock efficiency, and empower transformation.
I’m passionate about sharing knowledge, writing technical blogs, presenting at conferences, and mentoring the next generation of cloud professionals. I help teams and individuals build secure, auditable systems that drive real business outcomes in the UK and beyond.

Enterprise Architect and Microsoft MVP specialising in Azure and Infrastructure as Code for regulated industries. With deep expertise in Azure architecture, platform engineering and cloud-native technologies, I deliver solutions that strengthen com... Show more

Radu Vunvulea

Radu Vunvulea

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as VP of Cloud for Endava. He has a vast experience in different technologies and industries. Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to their business problems. He enjoys building bridges between people and helping others to grow. He shares his knowledge on his personal blog and at different events where he is invited as a speaker. In his spare time, he drives an IT community and he is also a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP.

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as VP of Cloud for Endava. He has a vast experience in different technologies and industries. Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to th... Show more

Daniel Ward

Daniel Ward

Daniel is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques. He helps teams deliver high-quality software while adopting modern practices such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI usage, and product management. With experience spanning multiple industries, including finance, retail, and agriculture, he has served as a technical coach, agile coach, and tech lead, with a primary background as a software developer. Outside of work, he enjoys playing piano and guitar, swing dancing, and game development.

Daniel is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques. He helps teams deliver high-quality software while adopting modern practices such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI usage, and product management. With experience span... Show more

Dan Barber

Dan Barber

A passionate and long-standing contributor to the Dynamics and Power Platform community, I bring over 20 years of hands-on experience in technology and consulting. From leading global system integrators to building high-growth practices and now leading my own business, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside brilliant minds on transformative projects—and picked up a few hard-earned lessons along the way. I love to share this knowledge and experience through my community activities with The Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group communities together with mentoring and coaching through both official channels such as Women In Power the Power Platform School as well an informal channels.

A passionate and long-standing contributor to the Dynamics and Power Platform community, I bring over 20 years of hands-on experience in technology and consulting. From leading global system integrators to building high-growth practices and now leadi... Show more

Chloé Moreau

Chloé Moreau

Responsable Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & Power Platform chez Infoteam Business Solutions. Ma mission est d’accompagner les entreprises dans leurs projets de digitalisation des processus métiers.
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Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & Power Platform Manager at Infoteam Business Solutions. My mission is to help companies with their business process digitalization projects.

Responsable Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & Power Platform chez Infoteam Business Solutions. Ma mission est d’accompagner les entreprises dans leurs projets de digitalisation des processus métiers. -----------------------------------------------... Show more

Devlin Duldulao

Devlin Duldulao

Devlin Basilan Duldulao is a Senior Consultant at Crayon Consulting based in Oslo, Norway, specializing in full-stack cloud engineering and modern web technologies. A recognized Microsoft MVP, Devlin is a prolific contributor to the global tech community as an international conference speaker, trainer, and open-source enthusiast. He is also an accomplished author, having written three books on full-stack enterprise development tools, including React, Spring Boot, and DotNet.

Devlin Basilan Duldulao is a Senior Consultant at Crayon Consulting based in Oslo, Norway, specializing in full-stack cloud engineering and modern web technologies. A recognized Microsoft MVP, Devlin is a prolific contributor to the global tech commu... Show more

Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry, both on the hardware and software sides, development, and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013, and was on the board of directors of Telerik, which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today, he is a consultant and advisor to several successful technology firms and hosts three podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers, RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals, and Windows Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly).

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry, both on the hardware and software sides, development, and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013, and ... Show more

Courtney Yatteau

Courtney Yatteau

Courtney Yatteau is a Developer Advocate on Esri's Developer Experience Team, where she helps developers build better web applications with modern JavaScript tools, libraries, and mapping technology. Before Esri, she taught computer science and mathematics, which shaped her approach to making technical concepts clear, approachable, and visual.

Courtney Yatteau is a Developer Advocate on Esri's Developer Experience Team, where she helps developers build better web applications with modern JavaScript tools, libraries, and mapping technology. Before Esri, she taught computer science and mathe... Show more

Joost Gelijsteen

Joost Gelijsteen

As a Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace consultant Joost helps customers implement modern workplace solutions based on top of their Microsoft 365 licensing, leveraging products like Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, I constantly build solutions which span these products, taking into account Security, Usability and Manageability as main pillars.

Currently he is also responsible for the delivery of Secure At Work, a product which can automatically provision Microsoft 365 tenants with best practices configuration and once onboarded keeps customers up to date by using regular releases. Each release adds or updates functionality in Microsoft 365 environments based on best practices and lessons learned from implementation feedback. The Secure At Work solution is already running on more than 15K+ endpoints, making it proven solution and able to cover 80% of business requirements.

As a Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace consultant Joost helps customers implement modern workplace solutions based on top of their Microsoft 365 licensing, leveraging products like Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, ... Show more

Filip Ekberg

Filip Ekberg

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and over 30 Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, 12 x Microsoft MVP for. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master all things C# and .NET.

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and over 30 Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, 12 x Microsoft MVP for. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master all things C# and .NET. Show more

Holger Imbery

Holger Imbery

Holger is a principal architect with over 20 years of experience in designing workplace solutions, specializing in Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Azure.

He shares his expertise and knowledge about the Power Platform, particularly on Copilot Studio, with the community through blogging and speaking at events.

Holger is a principal architect with over 20 years of experience in designing workplace solutions, specializing in Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Azure. He shares his expertise and knowledge about the Power Platform, particularly on Copilo... Show more

Jean-François Greffier

Jean-François Greffier

I'm a Front-end developper. I help teams on their journey to more agility and technical excellence.

I'm interested in Agile, Software Craft and testing.
Open-source contributor. Playwright ambassador

I'm a Front-end developper. I help teams on their journey to more agility and technical excellence. I'm interested in Agile, Software Craft and testing. Open-source contributor. Playwright ambassador Show more

Mr T-Bone Granheden

Mr T-Bone Granheden

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Invests hard in having expertise in the very latest, Loves to test new products and services that come to market and has been involved in many TAP and Beta programs.

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Micr... Show more

Anjuli Jhakry

Anjuli Jhakry

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and advocating for the incredible potential of tech to everyone.

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and ad... Show more

Jan-Tore Pedersen

Jan-Tore Pedersen

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and an Cloud and Datacenter and Azure Hybrid MVP. Jan-Tore joined Spirhed in April 2018 as a Senior Datacenter Consultant focusing on Software-Defined Datacenter, Azure Stack, Azure. Previous worked as a Senior Consultant for the 2017 Partner of the Year, and before that worked as a Senior Engineer at Infront Finance responsible for their entire infrastructure. Jan-Tore has been blogging for 8years and presenting at conferences to share his knowledge of these technologies. Previous Speaker experience includes Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Norway, CDC Germany and Experts Live Netherlands.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and an Cloud and Datacenter and Azure Hybrid MVP. Jan-Tore joined Spirhed in April 2018 as a Senior Datacenter Consultant focusing on Software-Defined Datacenter, Azure Stack, Azure. Previous worked... Show more

Arnaud Giuliani

Arnaud Giuliani

Arnaud has over 19 years of experience in software engineering, spanning roles in developing Java/JVM systems and leading Android application projects for startups. He has served as both a Senior Developer and Tech Lead, applying his expertise across various sectors.

Since 2016, he has been an active speaker on topics such as Kotlin, Android Architecture, and Koin, and in 2020, he was recognized as a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin.

In 2017, Arnaud initiated the development of Koin (https://insert-koin.io/), a lightweight dependency injection framework that has become well-known in the Kotlin ecosystem.

By late 2022, he co-founded Kotzilla (https://kotzilla.io/), a company focused on building developer tools and SaaS platforms for Kotlin and mobile developers.

Arnaud has over 19 years of experience in software engineering, spanning roles in developing Java/JVM systems and leading Android application projects for startups. He has served as both a Senior Developer and Tech Lead, applying his expertise across... Show more

Gittitat Ekchantawut

Gittitat Ekchantawut

Gittitat is a software engineer and game developer who obtained Unity Certified Professional: Programmer from Unity.
With a background in Game Development and AR/VR Development, Gittitat is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others. He has a keen interest in learning more about Computer Graphics, Optimization, Machine Learning on Unity.
He also manages a small Facebook fan page This is Unity where he shares knowledge about shaders and Unity tips and tricks with the community.
Additionally, Gittitat has been a speaker at .Net Conf Thailand for several years

Gittitat is a software engineer and game developer who obtained Unity Certified Professional: Programmer from Unity. With a background in Game Development and AR/VR Development, Gittitat is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others. He has ... Show more

Barun Acharya

Barun Acharya

Barun likes hacking on low level stuff and fiddling around developer toolings. He currently works as a Software Engineer, simplifying OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation at Odigos and is a maintainer for KubeArmor, CNCF Sandbox project. He loves to speak at conferences talking about Open Source, Cloud Native, Observability and Security. He is a proud CNCF Ambassador. He has been associated and am actively mentoring with programs like Google Summer of Code and LFX Mentorship.

Barun likes hacking on low level stuff and fiddling around developer toolings. He currently works as a Software Engineer, simplifying OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation at Odigos and is a maintainer for KubeArmor, CNCF Sandbox project. He loves to s... Show more

Samuel Shaw

Samuel Shaw

Sam has been in the technology space professionally for a decade after dabbling as a developer while working in academia. His spare time is spent trying new things or in the gym fighting. Most recently the focus being Krav Maga and Kung Fu.

Sam has been in the technology space professionally for a decade after dabbling as a developer while working in academia. His spare time is spent trying new things or in the gym fighting. Most recently the focus being Krav Maga and Kung Fu. Show more

Arash Aghajani

Arash Aghajani

Arash is a Solution Architect with over 15 years of progressive experience in software development, consulting, and architecture. Over the past decade, he has dedicated his expertise to empowering organizations of all sizes, leveraging Microsoft Modern Workplace and Business Applications solutions to drive employee productivity, empowerment and automate organization processes.

Arash is a passionate advocate for the Power Platform. Since 2020, he has been actively involved in designing and developing solutions utilizing Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse. His recent work includes leading solution architecture for process automation initiatives and enabling AI-powered experiences through Copilot for M365 and Copilot Studio.

He is dedicated to sharing and spreading technical knowledge and experience through LinkedIn, user groups, and his blog. He's been writing helpful blog posts in both English and Farsi since 2007.

Arash actively participates in the Microsoft Tech Community and leading following user groups:

- Vancouver Power Platform User Group (450+ members)
- Vancouver M365 User Group (700+ members)
- Vancouver Data & AI User Group (900+ members)
- Microsoft MSFarsi Community (1000+ members)

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Arash is a Solution Architect with over 15 years of progressive experience in software development, consulting, and architecture. Over the past decade, he has dedicated his expertise to empowering organizations of all sizes, leveraging Microsoft Mode... Show more

Mike Maadarani

Mike Maadarani

Mike Maadarani is a Microsoft Copilot & M365 MVP, a board member of the Microsoft Global Community Initiative, and a Cloud Solutions Architect who has been providing strategic solutions surrounding architecture, planning, migration and governance for medium to large-scale organization. With 30 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering collaboration solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global Microsoft 365 projects. This has giving him the opportunity to work with great talented colleagues and people who I have a lot of respect for their passion and dedication.

He is an active member in the Microsoft 365 community and have spoken in many Microsoft conferences, local events, and corporate functions.

Mike Maadarani is a Microsoft Copilot & M365 MVP, a board member of the Microsoft Global Community Initiative, and a Cloud Solutions Architect who has been providing strategic solutions surrounding architecture, planning, migration and governance for... Show more

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development. Show more

Andrew Madson

Andrew Madson

Andrew Madson leads Developer Relations at Fivetran, where he builds global programs that help developers and data teams adopt modern data and AI tooling. He has built DevRel, education, and evangelism functions at Fivetran, Tobiko Data, and Dremio, delivering technical content, large-scale community programs, and keynotes across major industry conferences.

Andrew is a published author of the O’Reilly “Definitive Guide to Apache Polaris” and a graduate professor of data science and engineering. Andrew previously led AI and data teams at Arizona State University, J.P. Morgan Chase, and MassMutual among others.

Andrew Madson leads Developer Relations at Fivetran, where he builds global programs that help developers and data teams adopt modern data and AI tooling. He has built DevRel, education, and evangelism functions at Fivetran, Tobiko Data, and Dremio, ... Show more

Sami Laiho

Sami Laiho

Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995. Sami's session was evaluated as the best session in TechEd North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (Keynote for NIC).

At Ignite 2018 Sami's sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this!

Sami is also an author at PluralSight and the conference chair for the TechMentor and "Cyber Security and Ransomware Live!" conferences.

More info at: https://samilaiho.com/

Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995. Sami's session was evaluated as the best session in TechEd North A... Show more

Alexandre Piatetsky

Alexandre Piatetsky

Alexandre is a recognized expert in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in Microsoft 365, Copilot, and digital governance. As a Microsoft MVP, he regularly speaks at conferences and community events, sharing real-world experience, best practices, and actionable insights on Microsoft technology adoption.
With over 15 years of experience in solution architecture, project management, presales, and client advisory, Alexandre is passionate about knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation. He is deeply involved in the Microsoft community, helping organizations maximize the value of Microsoft tools while promoting security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Alexandre is part of the French company Bleu, which owns and operates Microsoft’s first National Partner Cloud. He holds the position of Microsoft 365 Technology Lead there, and helps organizations harness the full potential of Microsoft 365 in a secure, compliant, and sovereign cloud environment.

Alexandre is a recognized expert in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in Microsoft 365, Copilot, and digital governance. As a Microsoft MVP, he regularly speaks at conferences and community events, sharing real-world experience, best practices, a... Show more

Vijaykumar Jangamashetti

Vijaykumar Jangamashetti

Vijaykumar Jangamashetti (VJ), is a seasoned professional with 18 years of experience in Data Analytics, Cloud, and AI. Currently a Trusted Advisor, Staff Cloud Consulting Architect, and Program Manager at Google, he specializes in guiding customers through their digital transformation journeys. VJ's expertise lies in helping customers design, architect, migrate, and modernize their infrastructure, data warehouses, and applications on Google Cloud, enabling them to fully harness the power of cloud computing. Furthermore, VJ offers valuable insights into AI and Generative AI (GenAI), empowering customers to explore new opportunities and achieve success with their AI endeavours. VJ is also a Startups Mentor in Google For Startups Accelerator (GFSA) programmme and holds Google Cloud 13X certifications.

Vijaykumar Jangamashetti (VJ), is a seasoned professional with 18 years of experience in Data Analytics, Cloud, and AI. Currently a Trusted Advisor, Staff Cloud Consulting Architect, and Program Manager at Google, he specializes in guiding customers ... Show more

Jose Luis Latorre Millas

Jose Luis Latorre Millas

José Luis Latorre Millas is a Microsoft AI MVP, LinkedIn Learning Trainer, and Software Architect at Swiss Life, where he leads the Developer Community and helps shape the AI Strategy.

Passionate about Agentic AI and frustrated by unreliable agents, José built AgentEval—the .NET evaluation toolkit that brings testing discipline to AI. What RAGAS and DeepEval do for Python, AgentEval does for .NET.

José loves sharing knowledge at conferences and user groups, making complex topics accessible and fun. When he's not commanding AI knight armies, he's exploring Azure, Generative AI, and performance engineering.

José Luis Latorre Millas is a Microsoft AI MVP, LinkedIn Learning Trainer, and Software Architect at Swiss Life, where he leads the Developer Community and helps shape the AI Strategy. Passionate about Agentic AI and frustrated by unreliable agent... Show more

Jörgen Nilsson

Jörgen Nilsson

Jorgen is working as a principal consultant at Onevinn in Sweden. He has been working as a consultant since 1993 with a focus on Enterprise Client Management and System Management. Involved in many projects and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Security MVP and Windows and Devices MVP, deliver training's mostly on Intune and Windows 11. Jörgen is also an appreciated speaker at event like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Techdays, Microsoft Management Summit(MMS), TechED, Techorama, TechMentor and Workplace Ninjas.

Jorgen is working as a principal consultant at Onevinn in Sweden. He has been working as a consultant since 1993 with a focus on Enterprise Client Management and System Management. Involved in many projects and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Mic... Show more

Fabrizio Sgura

Fabrizio Sgura

I began my programming journey at the tender age of 12, diving headfirst into Basic and Assembler for Sinclair and Commodore machines back in the distant 1980s, cementing my foundation. Since then, I've dived headfirst into the world of information technology, enjoying the constant evolution of systems and technologies, programming languages, being an insatiable learner and a high-level engineer. Scalability and flexibility are my passions. My job is my favorite game (and there's no such thing as a break!).

I began my programming journey at the tender age of 12, diving headfirst into Basic and Assembler for Sinclair and Commodore machines back in the distant 1980s, cementing my foundation. Since then, I've dived headfirst into the world of information t... Show more

Rune Ovlien Rakeie

Rune Ovlien Rakeie

Rune have been working with databases for 30+ years, primarily in those years with Microsoft SQL Server. Throughout the years he has had many roles, from Developer, Database Designer, Solution Architect and all the way to Production Dba.
Today Rune works for Vivicta as a Principal Cloud Architect on the different cloud vendor's Data Platform Services.
Rune is very active in the Microsoft Data Platform community and have held a position on the board for the Norwegian user group and for the last 8 years he has been running the largest Microsoft Data Platform conference on Norwegian soil, SQLSaturday Oslo, now re-branded to Data Saturday Oslo.
In his spare time you can find Rune in the woods of his hometown Arendal enjoying his hobby, building tracks and riding singletrack bicycling.

Rune have been working with databases for 30+ years, primarily in those years with Microsoft SQL Server. Throughout the years he has had many roles, from Developer, Database Designer, Solution Architect and all the way to Production Dba. Today Rune ... Show more

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